Selected Poems of John Updike

The best from Updike’s lifework in poetry: 129 witty and intimate poems that, when read together take on the quality of an autobiography in verse. • By a master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series.

“Updike’s gift for close observation, in these poems as elsewhere, is near to supernatural.” —The New York Times

Five decades of witty, intimate, and moving poems—written between 1953 and 2008—with the cumulative force of an unfolding verse-diary.

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